European Event-Driven Analyst

Jesus Rodriguez Aguilar

Event-Driven

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<li>Discount dispersion remains structural rather than market-driven. Governance, balance-sheet quality and catalyst visibility continue to explain valuation gaps across European holding companies better than underlying portfolio performance.</li>
<li>GBL and Vivendi remain our preferred opportunities. GBL offers long-term NAV compounding after recent widening, while Vivendi still trades at a substantial discount despite improving strategic optionality.</li>
<li>Nordic investment companies remain fully valued. Investor AB trades around NAV and Industrivärden at a premium, while Porsche SE and Rio continue reflecting persistent structural valuation anomalies.</li>
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Discount dispersion remains structural rather than market-driven. Governance, balance-sheet quality and catalyst visibility continue to explain valuation gaps across European holding companies better than underlying portfolio performance.
GBL and Vivendi remain our preferred opportunities. GBL offers long-term NAV compounding after recent widening, while Vivendi still trades at a substantial discount despite improving strategic optionality.
Nordic investment companies remain fully valued. Investor AB trades around NAV and Industrivärden at a premium, while Porsche SE and Rio continue reflecting persistent structural valuation anomalies.


Selected European HoldCos and DLC: June 2026 Report

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Akshat Shah

APAC IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/mmg-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:13961:1" rel="noopener">MMG (1208 HK)</a> is looking to raise around US$800m from a primary share placement. It also plans to raise another US$800m from a convertible bond offering.</li>
<li>MMG is a base metals miner focused on copper and zinc production, with key assets including Las Bambas (Peru), Khoemacau (Botswana) and Kinsevere in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.</li>
<li>In this note we talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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MMG (1208 HK) is looking to raise around US$800m from a primary share placement. It also plans to raise another US$800m from a convertible bond offering.
MMG is a base metals miner focused on copper and zinc production, with key assets including Las Bambas (Peru), Khoemacau (Botswana) and Kinsevere in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In this note we talk about the deal dynamics and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Aequitas: MMG Ltd Placement - Expansion Funding Amid Strong Recent Momentum

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

<p>Markets are showing signs of weakening at logical resistance as we anticipated in last week’s <em>Int’l Compass </em>- we recommend being selective in new purchases. At the same time we are seeing a number of indicators that are giving signals conducive to higher equity prices, meaning global equities may be gearing up for an eventual breakout topside resistance. In this report we highlight some attractive and actionable themes (Miners, consumer staples, and several attractive individual set ups in Thailand) along with indicators that support our overall constructive outlook.</p>

Markets are showing signs of weakening at logical resistance as we anticipated in last week’s Int’l Compass - we recommend being selective in new purchases. At the same time we are seeing a number of indicators that are giving signals conducive to higher equity prices, meaning global equities may be gearing up for an eventual breakout topside resistance. In this report we highlight some attractive and actionable themes (Miners, consumer staples, and several attractive individual set ups in Thailand) along with indicators that support our overall constructive outlook.

U.S.Dollar Weakness A Tailwind For International Markets

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<li>Vivendi remains our highest-conviction idea, trading at a 43.6% discount to NAV despite UMG representing over 80% of value and potential corporate optionality.</li>
<li>Dispersion widened in May, with Vivendi rerating, Porsche SE's discount expanding, Rio's DLC premium increasing and Nordic holding companies remaining near NAV.</li>
<li>Catalysts continue to matter more than valuation: discounts converged only where strategic triggers emerged, while structurally cheap names without catalysts remained cheap.</li>
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Vivendi remains our highest-conviction idea, trading at a 43.6% discount to NAV despite UMG representing over 80% of value and potential corporate optionality.
Dispersion widened in May, with Vivendi rerating, Porsche SE's discount expanding, Rio's DLC premium increasing and Nordic holding companies remaining near NAV.
Catalysts continue to matter more than valuation: discounts converged only where strategic triggers emerged, while structurally cheap names without catalysts remained cheap.


Selected European HoldCos and DLC: May 2026 Report

Iron Ore, Copper, Equities, Mint Finance

Umang Agrawal

Iron Ore, Copper, Equities

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Jimblebar inventory drawdowns suggest Chinese mills are rotating back toward BHP’s higher-volume Pilbara blend after temporary feedstock adjustments.</li>
<li>BHP is expanding copper production while several global mining peers continue cutting guidance and struggling with operational execution pressures.</li>
<li>Markets are increasingly rewarding BHP’s scale, execution and commodity exposure through stronger earnings revisions and price target upgrades. </li>
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Jimblebar inventory drawdowns suggest Chinese mills are rotating back toward BHP’s higher-volume Pilbara blend after temporary feedstock adjustments.
BHP is expanding copper production while several global mining peers continue cutting guidance and struggling with operational execution pressures.
Markets are increasingly rewarding BHP’s scale, execution and commodity exposure through stronger earnings revisions and price target upgrades. 


The Market Repricing Around BHP May Only Be Getting Started

United Kingdom

Rio Tinto is a leading British-Australian multinational mining and metals company that specializes in the exploration, mining, and processing of mineral resources. Its core products include iron ore, copper, aluminum, and lithium. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in London, England.

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Operational momentum, tightening copper markets and sustained earnings upgrades continue strengthening BHP’s position within the global mining sector.

Mint Finance

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